Sufyan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sufyan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sufyan: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #678, and it stood at #702 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#678highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Boys

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#853
1997	#678
1998	#1000
1999	#869
2000	#817
2001	#910
2002	#907
2003	#761
2004	#717
2005	#691
2006	#885
2007	#742
2008	#684
2009	#737
2010	#774
2011	#681
2012	#821
2013	#692
2014	#765
2015	#779
2016	#858
2017	#761
2018	#1013
2019	#768
2020	#829
2021	#854
2022	#925
2023	#857
2024	#702

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #853 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #678 among boys in England and Wales, in 1997 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #702 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Sufyan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sufyan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	73	4 of 10	18
2000s	300	10 of 10	30
2010sbusiest	403	10 of 10	40
2020s	193	5 of 10	39

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 40 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sufyan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #678 in England and Wales in 1997.

Sufyan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#702	51	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#925	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#854	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#829	36	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#768	41	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1013	28	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#761	45	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#858	37	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#779	41	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#765	41	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#692	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#681	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#774	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#737	40	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#684	43	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#742	37	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#885	27	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#717	32	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#761	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#907	19	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#910	18	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#817	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#869	18	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1000	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#678	24	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#853	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #678, first reached in 1997.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#702position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
51births registered in its largest year, 202450 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Sufyaan · #534, 29y
Suha · #1391, 27y
Suhaan · #1804, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Farhaan · #678, 27y
Kaydon · #678, 25y
Marli · #680, 26y
Shakeel · #680, 27y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Farhaan · #678, 27y
Alyx · #677, 19y
Comfort · #677, 21y
Enola · #677, 23y

Sufyan was ranked #678 in England and Wales · Boys in 1997. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sufyan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sufyan without appearing here.

Sufyan moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2003 they stood at #761 and #695 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #717 and #1347.
Wayne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #774 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #681 and #1303.
Courtney Compare
In 2002 they stood at #907 and #907 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #761 and #1248.
Phillip Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1013 and #835 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #768 and #1253.

Moved ahead of Sufyan

Oskar Compare
In 1997 they stood at #678 and #759 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1000 and #502.
Arlo Compare
In 2005 they stood at #691 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #885 and #582.
Kasper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #681 and #701 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #821 and #592.
Tadhg Compare
In 2017 they stood at #761 and #943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1013 and #786.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #678 in England and Wales in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Sufyan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sufyan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sufyan at a glance

Sufyan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sufyan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sufyan

Sufyan and the names beside it

Sufyan moved ahead of

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